David Corn

David Corn is the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones magazine. He is the form er Washington editor of The Nation. He writes a blog for the Congressional Quarterly website. "He has broken stories on George W. Bush, George H.W. Bush, Newt Gingrich, Colin Powell, Rush Limbaugh, Enron, the Central Intelligence Agency, the CIA leak case, corruption in Iraq, Senator David Vitter, the Pentagon, and assorted Washington players and institutions."

Corn has long been a prominent commentator on television and radio. He was a regular panelist on the weekly television show, Eye On Washington, which was syndicated on PBS stations across the United States.

Corn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Brown University.

Specific criticism
Corn's articles have provoked criticism from some. The specific criticisms relate to:
 * Corn's criticisms of Greg Palast's articles on the Ohio vote count in the 2004 Presidential election provoked a dismissive response from Palast.;
 * Corn's dismissal of the hypothesis that there was prior warning of the September 11 attacks
 * Corn's dismissal of Forbidden Truth, a book written by two French journalists and published in the U.S. by the Nation Institute.
 * Corn's scepticism of the work of journalist Gary Webb on cocaine and the CIA

In response to Corn's articles on these issues one critic wrote that Corn "has frequently served as a Neo-Con-lite version of someone who dismisses those who have investigated the crimes of the U.S. government".

Books

 * Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War (with Michael Isikoff) (Crown, 2006).
 * The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception (Crown, 2003).
 * Deep Background (St. Martin's Press, 2001).
 * Blond Ghost: Ted Shackley and the CIA's Crusades (Simon & Schuster, 1994).